BiogeographyBiogeography, Second Edition combines ecological and historical perspectives to show how contemporary environments, earth history, and evolutionary processes have shaped the distributions of species and the patterns of biodiversity. It illustrates general patterns and processes using examples from different groups of plants and animals from diverse habitats and geographic regions. Written primarily for use in undergraduate and graduate courses in plant and/or animal geography, the book serves as a general synthesis and reference as well. |
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... mountain range so that the leeward side receives warm , dry winds . Lower figure shows how air on the windward side cools at the wet adiabatic lapse rate when condensation is occurring and warms almost entirely at the dry adiabatic ...
... mountain range so that the leeward side receives warm , dry winds . Lower figure shows how air on the windward side cools at the wet adiabatic lapse rate when condensation is occurring and warms almost entirely at the dry adiabatic ...
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... mountain range of the southwestern United States . Certain resident species ( those that do not leave ) such as the dark - eyed junco Junco hyemalis ) , Cassin's finch ( Carpodacus cassinii ) , and Steller's jay ( Cyanositta stelleri ) ...
... mountain range of the southwestern United States . Certain resident species ( those that do not leave ) such as the dark - eyed junco Junco hyemalis ) , Cassin's finch ( Carpodacus cassinii ) , and Steller's jay ( Cyanositta stelleri ) ...
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... mountains ( Figure 17.5 ) ( Whittaker , 1960 , 1977 ) , and orchids ( Orchidaceae ) attain their greatest diversity on tropical mountain- sides in the low - stature forests that occur considerably higher than lowland rain forests ...
... mountains ( Figure 17.5 ) ( Whittaker , 1960 , 1977 ) , and orchids ( Orchidaceae ) attain their greatest diversity on tropical mountain- sides in the low - stature forests that occur considerably higher than lowland rain forests ...
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adapted adaptive radiation Africa angiosperms animals aquatic areas Australasia Australia barriers biogeographic biotas biotic Cenozoic changes Chapter cies cladistic cladogram climate colonization communities competition continental continental drift continents Cretaceous desert disjunctions distributions drift eastern ecological elevation endemic environment Eocene Eurasia evolution evolutionary example extinction families fauna Figure fishes forms fossil record freshwater genera geographic ranges geologic Gondwanaland groups Guinea habitats inhabiting insects insular interactions isolated lakes land bridge landmasses latitudes limited living long-distance dispersal MacArthur Madagascar mainland major mammals marine Mesozoic migration million years BP mountain Neotropics niches North Northern Hemisphere number of species occur oceanic islands organisms origin Pacific Paleocene patterns phylogenetic plants plate Pleistocene polyploidy populations predators present radiation rain forest reconstructions regions relationships relatively Simberloff similar soil South America southern speciation species richness taxa taxon taxonomic temperate temperature terrestrial tion tropical vegetation vicariance World zone